[NTG-context] Re: BibTeX choking on comments in database

[Alan Braslau via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>]

On Tue, 28 May 2024 21:54:08 -0700
Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 2024-05-28 at 17:00 -0600, Alan Braslau wrote:
> > The Context publications reference subsystem reads BibTeX databases
> > but does not use BibTeX at all. I am not sure what your quoted
> > statement means exactly.  
> 
> I see. The first few lines of my BibTeX file just contains a copyright
> notice that is commented out with the % character. If that is not a
> valid comment character, is there no way to write a comment in the
> file?
> 

1) You appear to be using the long-frozen mkii bibliography code.
2) As Aditya wrote, anything outside of a valid entry is ignored.

@comment{
}

is a good construction.

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